Class Guitar
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Class Guitar is the title of a recording by guitarist Chet Atkins
. It peaked at number 26 on the Country Album charts and number 189 on the Pop Album charts. It is out of print.
Chet Atkins
Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...
. It peaked at number 26 on the Country Album charts and number 189 on the Pop Album charts. It is out of print.
Side one
- "Yellow Bird" (Keith, Bergman, Luboff)
- "MalaguenaMalagueñaOriginally the sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona, who also provided it with Spanish lyrics, the song "Malagueña" has since become a popular, jazz, marching band, and drum corps standard and has been provided with lyrics in several languages.-Notable vocal performances:A...
" (Ernesto LecuonaErnesto LecuonaErnesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality....
) - "Morenita Do Brazil" (Farrauto) – 3:02
- "Testament of Amelia"
- "Acutely Cute" (Atkins) – 2:06
- "Little Music Box" (Francisco TárregaFrancisco TárregaFrancisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...
) - "Lagrima" (Tárrega)
Side two
- "El Huma Hua Queno"
- "Ave Maria" (Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
) – 2:42 - "Scherzino Mexicano" (Manuel María PonceManuel Maria PonceManuel María Ponce Cuéllar was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore...
) - "Manha de Carnaval (Theme from "Black Orpheus")" (Bonfa, Maria) – 1:41
- "Chancion Triste" – 2:38
- "To Be in Love" (Atkins, Jerry ReedJerry ReedJerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...
) - "I Feel Pretty" (Leonard BernsteinLeonard BernsteinLeonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
, Stephen SondheimStephen SondheimStephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
) – 2:20